Summary
Tam-sanh Nguyen is a Forward Deployed Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building data-rich, production systems and leading engineering teams across startups and global consultancies. He has a track record of architecting large-scale data pipelines and tooling—from founding deployments at Palantir to enabling org-wide data access at Xendit and leading data efforts at Little Otter to improve mental health outcomes. Based in Austin, he blends deep technical craft with client-facing execution, often operating in high-pressure, cross-cultural environments to deliver tangible business value. He also brings product-minded leadership, having served as Head of Engineering and Head of Data Engineering, and writes generalized internal tools that scale across teams. A curious polymath, he pairs a CS degree with unconventional pursuits like yoga teacher training and international language study, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training, 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training at Akasha Yoga Academy
Taiwan Language Institute
Yamasa Language School
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at University of Maryland
English, Japanese, Chinese, Indonesian